We are in the process of going into dedicated server market. And I would like to see what people think about this. This is not an offer, but a market study and I would like to hear inputs from the community.

The idea is not to offer the cheapest dedicated servers around and also not to charge very expensively as one would expect we might do. But to come up with somwehere in the middle, with high quality server and on a reliable/high quality bandwidth. Something like this:
- Dell Rackmount Server (brand new)
- At least Xeon 2.4/Ghz (upgradeable to Dual 3.2 GHz) with 512 MB of ECC DDR memory (upgradeable to 4-8 GB of memory).
- 36 GB SCSI. (RAID5 is possible)
- 400-600 GB of Internap (SurePath, if not PerformancePath) bandwidth
- KVM over IP access (do fsck anywhere from the world!)
- remote reboot access.
- around $400 setup, $400/month.


Any thoughts?

Moved to 'community reviews->other reviews' which is where plan reviews and such is best...

dave,

this is not very mid-market oriented, being on the higher side of things imho. i am speaking from the perspective of a provider that does the mid-market thing, not a cheapie client that wants everything for 55/mo. given *where* you want to do it, paying the internap 'we are better than everyone else' surcharge is not a wise business decision. just as with ash, but to a lesser extent, pretty much everyone in nyc is going to be good due to the amount of peering being done here. a blend of two tier 1 carriers or a single quality tier 2 would let you drop the pricing a bit, making the offer more attractive to the mid-market.

paul

Most sub $200/month ded server provider will supply only a low end/medium end server. They will even turn a desktop into a "server". I have received inquries where people want quality server on a reliable network and they are willing to pay double/tripple for this. Everybody can do blend of two tier one carriers, and people have been doing this cheap. What I would like to offer is a blend of 7-9 tier one carriers, which can be expensive too if you really do it yourself rather than just go with Intenrap.

And Paul, I have never claimed Internap to be the best (one of the best, yes). It may be you that keep saying Peer1 to be of Internap's quality ;) And I've never objected to your claim :) I even think CW is top rated, probably in the same quality range as internap. But then again, I prefer Internap since Internap comes with blend of many other providers beside CW at a price comparable to CW.